Fumio Yoshimura Quotes & Sayings

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver

I use to drink every day without a care until I released the Demons that now I must bare — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly through the roller coaster of a ride. The depth of the novel was evidenced by the constantly shifting meaning of the title itself. In fact, the entire work never changes its meaning, but somehow, seamlessly, simply means more. This is a rare and memorable piece of work. — Percival Everett

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble. — Etty Hillesum

You are! There ain't no Thirteenth! Ain't naught but the Twelve, that's truth! Yeah, I been to Verrar a couple times, met up with lads and lasses — Scott Lynch

Each of the following states of being is distinctly tied to one of the seven core emotions...Freedom, Passion, Enthusiasm, Positive Expectations, Optimism, Contentment, Boredom, Pessimism, Frustration, A sense of being overwhelmed, Disappointment, Doubt, Worry, Blame, Discouragement, Bitterness, Vengefulness, Hatred, Jealousy, Insecurity, Guilt, Unworthiness, Grief, Depression, Powerlessness, Inability to concerntrate — Shawn Kent Hayashi

Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. — Ole Hallesby

You need to have a relationship with what you put inside you. I don't want to get all spiritual about this, but I believe our bodies are a gift, and to deface it is disrespectful. — Michael Moore

When he reached the end, he did not die. He called your name and began to live in you. — Anthony Marra

There's no point living, if you can't feel alive. — Sophie Marceau

If you mean to unhinge me, young Jhonis, you will need to be more convincing. Allow me to demonstrate. You are a surface-crawling, poisonless bug who means to frighten a wolf. For I will trample you beneath my toe without ever knowing you existed. — Quoleena Sbrocca

If a woman tells you she doesn't want children, pretend she's actually telling you she doesn't want children. Don't translate it in your head as, "I'm saying I don't want them now, but I'm sure I'll change my mind later." She has no reason to lie to you, and if she's told you she doesn't want children, she's already given it enough thought to make that declaration. So, assume she means it. — Sylvia D. Lucas

At the end of a life spent in the pursuit of knowledge Faust has to confess:
"I now see that we can nothing know."
That is the answer to a sum, it is the outcome of a long experience. But as Kierkegaard observed, it is quite a different thing when a freshman comes up to the university and uses the same sentiment to justify his indolence. As the answer to a sum it is perfectly true, but as the initial data it is a piece of self-deception. For acquired knowledge cannot be divorced from the existence in which it is acquired. The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy. — Tupac Shakur

What if things happened to you - special, magic things - because you'd been preparing for them? — Jennifer McMahon